| Summary: | Australia is made up of 20 million people and, interestingly enough, over
one million of the total population live overseas. Australians living abroad
are known as `expatriates´ and they have a particular profile: highly
educated and better skilled than their counterparts at home. Thus, on the
one hand, a general division may be established between expatriates and
Australians living at home; on the other, a particular division between
expatriates themselves, which depends on the individual reasons that push
them to leave Australia. At this point, it is important to outline the general
reasons that lead expatriates to go overseas. To begin with, in terms of
migration, Australia is both historically and contemporarily linked to other
countries. Secondly, Australia is geographically isolated and, therefore, far
away from the main global markets. Finally, it is quite right to conclude
that although the logical assumption of expatriation is distance, expatriates
are mentally, and often emotionally, linked to Australia and, therefore, the
understanding of their situation is more positive than negative
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